Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.